Necktie-retainer.



WILLIAM A. LORD, OF ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

NECKTIE-RETAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedJuly 16,1907.

Application filed January '7, 1907. Serial No. 351,224.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. LORD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Orange, in the county of Essex and Stateof New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Necktie-Retainers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention pertains to improvements in necktie retainers. Its objects are to provide for readily and effectively retaining the tie in proper position with relation to, or upon the collar, more particularly of the standing type; and to effect the samein a simple, economic and effective manner.

Said invention therefore consists of the detailed structural features thereof substantially as hereinafter fully disclosed and specifically pointed out by the claims.

In theaccompanying drawing illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention-Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the invention as applied to the collar-button and the passing of the tie therethrough previous to the formation of the bow. Fig. 2 is a vertical section produced through the same in the line of the collar-button receiving loop of the retainer after co1n-.

pleting the tying operation. Fig. 3 is a detached perspective view of the retainer. Fig. 4 is a vertical central section produced through Fig. 3.

In carrying out my invention, I form the fastener or retainer 1, which is of metal, preferably nickel, silver, gold-plated or other suitable metal, with a lower loop 2 having a relatively contracted opening and an upper loop 3 having an opening of much greater area than that of the aforesaid loop, the latter loop 3, however, being preferably deflected outward somewhat from the plane of the loop 2, although this is not essential. The opening of the loop 2 is designed to be of only sufficient crosssection to receive the shank of the collar-button, the head of the latter overhanging said loop, and the same,

of course, being introduced through the larger loop 3 in 4 effecting the insertion of the button-shank into the smaller loop 2. The larger loop 3receivcs, and has one end of the tie initially passed through it, in forming the bow and accordingly when the tying operation has been completed the central or looped portion of the bow will be retained thereby as shown, and thus provide for the fastening or retention of the tie in position upon the collar, whether of the high turned-down, or standing type, as against climbing or rising upon the collar above its upper edge, as is obvious.

It will be noted that the larger or tie-receiving loop may be made conformable in area to the cross-section of the size of the tie in connection with which it may be desired to use the retainer or fastener. It will also be noted that the more tightly the tie is drawn the more firmly will it be held in place by the fastener.

I claim- 1. A necktie retainer formed of an upper large loop, with its upper boundary rounding upward for the passage bodilytherethrough of the necktie and the return or folding of the tie upon itself above and over said upper loop boundary, said retainer having a lower smaller loop for the reception of the collar-button, extending downward below said large loop and opening upward thereinto.

2. A necktie retainer formed of an upper large loop with its upper boundary rounding upward for the passage bodily therethrough of the necktie and the return or folding of the tie upon itself above and over said upper loopboundary, said retainer having a lower smaller loop for the reception of the collar-button, extending downward below said upper loop and opening upward thereinto, said retainer itself also being bodily curved upward and outward with respect to its effective position for the purpose stated.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence two witnesses.

WILLIAM A. LORD.

Witnesses MARY BURKE, DANIEL A. DUGAN. 

